I wanted to put together a driud deck with a ton of mid-range creatures, with the hope of hitting a sweet spot where they're hard to remove with AOE, and will be inefficient to remove with individual removal cards. To support the idea, I included small creatures with draw effects, mana gain, and cheap removal to get me to the mid-game.
It works *ok*, but not great. It''s amazing vs Priest (no good MC targets, almost no valid shadow word targets) and mage (AOE not a big deal, and I can do a lot of damage fast), and so far pretty bad vs Paladin (divine shield makes it efficient to remove my minions using his) and warlock (I can only defend myself up to a certain point vs a rush).
Any tweaks you would suggest? Try to limit to rare or worse. I'm a fairly new player.
Wild Growth feels counter-intuitive in this deck; you're playing mid-game, not rushing to late game, right? Also, I feel Nourish and/or Ancient of the Lore is necessary for any deck using both Innervates and Wild Growth. These keep you from running out of steam and AoL especially keeps board presence.
As for board control vs rush decks, you want cheap Spell Damage such as Kobold Geomancer, if you don't agree with Kobold Geomancers, Starfall provides the board-wide damage of a Spell Damage swipe without the Spell Damage boost. Of course, they're made better with Spell Damage anyways.
I don't have too many other basic or common suggestions, your deck hits all of the standard necessities. You may want to drop either Acolyte of Pain or Novice Engineer, you have more than enough draw power in this deck.
You can drop Alcolyte of Pain and replace with 1Starfall and 1Force of Nature that will give you better trades and control against paladins and warlock rush, i suggest you to run with more spellpower too.
Check out my topic, there is a good discussion on the cards that you already have that can help you to improve your deck.
I wanted to put together a driud deck with a ton of mid-range creatures, with the hope of hitting a sweet spot where they're hard to remove with AOE, and will be inefficient to remove with individual removal cards. To support the idea, I included small creatures with draw effects, mana gain, and cheap removal to get me to the mid-game.
It works *ok*, but not great. It''s amazing vs Priest (no good MC targets, almost no valid shadow word targets) and mage (AOE not a big deal, and I can do a lot of damage fast), and so far pretty bad vs Paladin (divine shield makes it efficient to remove my minions using his) and warlock (I can only defend myself up to a certain point vs a rush).
Any tweaks you would suggest? Try to limit to rare or worse. I'm a fairly new player.
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Wild Growth feels counter-intuitive in this deck; you're playing mid-game, not rushing to late game, right? Also, I feel Nourish and/or Ancient of the Lore is necessary for any deck using both Innervates and Wild Growth. These keep you from running out of steam and AoL especially keeps board presence.
As for board control vs rush decks, you want cheap Spell Damage such as Kobold Geomancer, if you don't agree with Kobold Geomancers, Starfall provides the board-wide damage of a Spell Damage swipe without the Spell Damage boost. Of course, they're made better with Spell Damage anyways.
I don't have too many other basic or common suggestions, your deck hits all of the standard necessities. You may want to drop either Acolyte of Pain or Novice Engineer, you have more than enough draw power in this deck.
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You can drop Alcolyte of Pain and replace with 1Starfall and 1Force of Nature that will give you better trades and control against paladins and warlock rush, i suggest you to run with more spellpower too.
Check out my topic, there is a good discussion on the cards that you already have that can help you to improve your deck.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/class-discussion/druid/1478-commander-druid-meta-game-control-deck
Hope it helps =D
Thanks everybody. I'll make some changes and update you when I have new results.